Long grain rice like Jasmine rice works a lot better than medium or short grain rice, which will have more of a tendancy to become mushy. If your fried rice is too dry, just add some soy sauce, hoisin sauce, or oyster sauce. Also, when doing any type of Chinese stir frying, you need to make sure that your pan or wok is super hot. The oil should be smoking before you start frying and you need to keep the temp. on high throughout the cooking process.

Cook the rice a day ahead and let it cool in the refrigerator. Then you can add whatever ingredients you want and lastly add the cold rice ( I normally like to break it with my clean hands before adding it to a saute pan).